Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium


Bob Ford Field at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium is a stadium in Albany, New York, owned and operated by the Albany, SUNY. The stadium serves as home venue to school's football team, as well as their men's and women's soccer, and women's field hockey programs.
The stadium, with an initial seating capacity of 8,500 opened on September 14, 2013, when Albany made its debut in Colonial Athletic Association football against Rhode Island. It was renamed Bob Ford Field at Tom and Mary Casey Stadium in 2015 after Tom & Mary Casey gave a $10 million gift to the school. It replaced University Field as the school's current stadium.

Features

  • 8,500 seats, including 629 chair-backs, bleachers, and a natural grass berm.
  • Daktronics scoreboard with a 39’ by 22’ HD video display and point-source sound system behind the south end zone.
  • Press level with four luxury suites, print media area, and booths for radio, television, coaches, and replay.

Attendance records

Football

Due to growing popularity and national recognition of lacrosse, the first-ever Albany Great Danes men's lacrosse game was held at Bob Ford Field on April 18, 2015. It was the first time since March 10, 2007 that a top-10 matchup was held in the Capital District, with #4 UAlbany defeating #10 Delaware 13–7. Since then, multiple top-25 in the nation games have been held there. The official seating capacity for lacrosse at Casey Stadium is 6,394.

Lacrosse

Most home lacrosse games are played next door at John Fallon Field
Rank.DateResultEvent
16,472May 13, 20178 seed Albany 15, UNC 121st Round - NCAA Tournament
24,823April 18, 20158 Albany 12, 7 Yale 11Spring Stomp
34,800May 2, 20182 seed Albany 15, Richmond 91st Round - NCAA Tournament
44,044March 31, 20181 Albany 13, Stony Brook 7
53,688April 7, 2022Albany 14, Syracuse 12
63,553April 20, 20182 Albany 18, Binghamton 7
73,205April 22, 20175 Albany 13, 12 Yale 12Spring Stomp
83,093April 12, 20176 Albany 11, 3 Maryland 12
92,715March 4, 20181 Albany 11, Cornell 9
102,583March 17, 20181 Albany 21, 14 Vermont 5

Non-UAlbany Events

Since 2021 Tom & Mary Casey Stadium has hosted the Premier Lacrosse League. In 2022 and 2023 the university has hosted the leagues training camp and opening weekend to the tour based schedule. In 2024 the league announced that teams would be given "home cities" and the New York Atlas (lacrosse) would be based out of Albany and Tom & Mary Casey Stadium. The addition of home cities and conferences brought slight changes to the schedule. Every team has one weekend where they are the home team and play a weekend doubleheader.